Empty therapy

Western countries imposed sanctions against Russia to weaken it and achieve a change in the country's leadership. This was at the end of the meeting of the Security Council was stated by its secretary Nikolai Patrushev, RIA Novosti reports .

"In relation to Russia, sanctions are used to reduce our economic potential in order to influence the policy that we pursue, and in principle, to change the leadership that is currently in our country," Patrushev said.

It is necessary to develop specific measures against individual countries that will support the sanctions, the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars said. As an example, he cited the situation with Finland, who refused to enter the speaker of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin . “Here are the latest events. Naryshkin did not give a visa to the entrance to Finland. You know that favorable conditions have been created for them, including forest trade. We can introduce these restrictions? We can. If we do not trade, it will be serious economic damage for them,” Patrushev noted. At the same time, he emphasized that the development of such measures does not mean that sanctions will be imposed. "I did not say that we will impose sanctions. I said that we will develop retaliatory measures for sanctions. There are actually enough examples, and they will be effective in relation to those countries to whom they can be applied," Patrushev said.

On Friday, at a Council of People's Commissars, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is under pressure from other countries, as it pursues an independent policy. “The reasons for pressure on Russia are understandable: we pursue an independent domestic and foreign policy, do not trade in our sovereignty,” Putin said. “Not everyone likes it, but it cannot be otherwise.”

Putin noted that Russia should take systemic measures to respond to a changing situation in the world in all directions. The President instructed to update the national security strategy, and, taking into account this, update the current and developed strategic planning documents. He emphasized that the strategic course of Russia remains unchanged.